The reported percentage of births attributable to school going learners has
highlighted the concern for adolescents engaging in early and unsafe sexual
practices. A review of literature suggests that early sexual initiation ...

The study seeks to describe the experiences of teenage mothers subsequent to having their first child among females attending school in Jozini, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal. The study adopted a qualitative research approach ...

Violence against women is not only recognized as a pervasive and insidious social problem affecting all societies, but is being increasingly characterized as the most widespread form of human rights violation. South Africa ...

This study answers the critical question: How do women leaders experience gender
equality in the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU)? It focuses on
five women leaders in the union, illuminating their experiences ...

Globalization has played an influential role in increasing the number of international students studying in foreign institutions. Internationalization and globalization has taken us by storm and are phenomena that cannot ...

In this study the experience of Zulu African mothers who have adolescents who are misbehaving in urban townships in Durban were identified and explored. A qualitative, descriptive, contextual and interpretive research ...

This study is focused on documented experiences of senior primary heads of departments
regarding their changed roles as a result of education policy changes in leadership and
management. There are three key concepts that ...

The use of laboratory animals for research purposes has been debated for many years. Animal rights movements are strongly opposed to using animals for research purposes. There is also an argument that animal research is ...

This dissertation centres on the classification of artists’ books based on the qualities they possess as works of art as well as the intimate engagement required by the reader in order to experience such works in their ...

Five semi-structured interviews were held with key informants of various organisations both on and off campus in order to gain an understanding of the context of drug-taking by university students in Pietermaritzburg. ...

An experimental and numerical investigation of the flow and convective heat transfer distribution around a high turning angle gas turbine rotor blade has been carried out at the University of Kwa-Zulu, Durban campus. This ...

An experimental and numerical study of he aerodynamics and the associated heat transfer on turbine blades, has been carried out as part of the ongoing Armscor Denel aircraft engine maintenance program. The experimental ...

This dissertation involves the experimental and numerical analysis of heat transfer on a
transonic high turning angle gas turbine blade, which has been performed on the supersonic
cascade experimental facility at the ...

The theoretical and experimental work in this thesis is primarily aimed at
i) the quantification of the strengths of a number of hydrogen bonded
systems, and ii) exploring the relationships that exist between the ...

This qualitative research study was carried out with six Grade 11 pupils from a school for boys in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Its main intentions were to explore if the computer software Geogebra could aid pupils in ...

Cd levels were measured in three different body compartments of the echinoid
Stomopneustes variolaris after exposure to concentrations of 5 ug 1l, 20 ug 1l and 50 ug
1l Cd for a period of two weeks. The body compartments ...

The object of the present study was to determine simultaneously aspects of hepatic and peripheral glucose metabolism in the intact baboon. Isotopic techniques were used to study glucose turnover rates, glucose recycling, ...

Amorphous metallic alloys are produced by a variety of techniques some of which involve rapid solidification of the alloying constituents. In these methods the solidification occurs so rapidly that the atoms are frozen-in ...